Read the paragraph. Do you realize that your lead pencil is not lead at all? if it were. It would cost more. Today, pencils are made of graphite, which is cheaper,
darker, and harder than lead. Pencils used to cost about a nickel. Now, each one costs closer to 20 cents. But it is still a bargain, for one pencil can
draw a line 39 miles long. Not many ballpoint pens that cost two dollars and more would last that long!
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
01. Pencils are a bargain for the money.
02. Pencils are no longer made of lead.
O 3. Graphite pencils make darker lines.
O 4. Pencils cost about 20 cents each today.

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Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt